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Macro nutrients and calories don't add up
The macro nutrients and total calories for cos lettuce don't match. If you add up the calories of the macro nutrients for cos lettuce, you don't get the number displayed 3.5×4 + 3.3×4 + 0.8×9=34.4 not 47. If you look at the daily total (if all I ate that day was six cups of chopped lettuce 😱 ) it seems that the carbs are… -
Re: Macro nutrients and calories don't add up
Hi there, There are a couple of things to note about calculating energy in foods. For lab analyzed data we often have more accurate energy estimates for each of the macronutrients than the average 4/4/9 kcal/g for protein/carbs/fat. For example, Food Data Central shows the calculated energy values use to estimate the…
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